A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

Mali’s crisis began in 2012, when coalitions of Tuareg secessionists known collectively as the Coordination of Azawad ...

We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...

The government of Niger has declared three days of mourning following an attack on a mosque in the country’s southwest that ...

Remarks by South Africa’s ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, about President Donald Trump were ‘unacceptable’, a State ...

The West African nation, along with neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for more than a decade battled an insurgency fought ...

Mali’s army said its attack targeted armed militants. The Collective for the Defense of the Rights of the Azawad People, part ...

An airstrike in northern Mali killed at least 18 people, a separatist group said, while the army says it targeted armed militants ...

An army air strike in Mali's Timbuktu region killed at least 18 people, causing controversy over targeting civilians or terrorists. Malian forces claim the strike aimed at neutralizing terrorists amid ...

An army air strike at a market in Mali's northern Timbuktu region on Sunday killed at least 18 people and injured seven, a local rights group said, while the army said it was targeting terrorists.

“They kill people very indiscriminately,” said Héni ... the center of a long-running fight between the state and ethnic Tuareg rebels, who have fought for decades to establish an independent ...

An acoustic reworking of Funeral for Injustice highlights the fearsome adaptability of the Nigerien singer-guitarist and his band, as well as the tensions of their position on a world stage.